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I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.

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[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fastest sailboat is kind of the offset rig:

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I bet it's even faster if you reduce the weight by combining it with the deckhand obliterator!